Believe - Belief Quotes

Men to a great extent believe what they want to – although I see in that no basis for a philosophy that tells us what we should want to want.

No amount of manifest absurdity… could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

Man is what he believes, for belief is the great force of the mind. To accomplish great things we must dream – plan – act – believe.

Every idea is an incitement. If offers itself for belief and if believed, it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it, or some failure or energy stifles the movements at its birth.

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again – and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

If you don’t have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

If you believe that discrimination exists, it will.

The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.